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Autonomy, authenticity, or best interest: everyday decision-making and persons with dementia
1Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics, University of Manchester, Williamson Building, Manchester M13 9PT, UK. soren.holm@man.ac.uk
Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy
|September 8, 2001
Abstract:
The question of when we have justification for overriding ordinary, everyday decisions of persons with dementia is considered. It is argued that no single criterion for competent decision-making is able to distinguish reliably between decisions we can legitimately override and decisions we cannot legitimately override.